What makes the words we speak mean what they do? Possible-worlds
semantics articulates the view that the meanings of words
contribute to determining, for each sentence, which possible worlds
would make the sentence true, and which would make it false. M. J.
Cresswell argues that the non-semantic facts on which such semantic
facts supervene are facts about the causal interactions between the
linguistic behaviour of speakers and the facts in the world that
they are speaking about, and that the kind of causation involved is
best analysed using David Lewis's account of causation in terms of
counterfactuals. Although philosophers have worked on the question
of the connection between meaning and linguistic behaviour, it has
mostly been without regard to the work done in possible-world
semantics and Language in the World is a book-length examination of
this problem.
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